Ed Hammond

From Rutgers Medical Informatics History Project

Name: W. Ed Hammond, Ph.D.

Elected ACMI Fellow: 1984. President ACMI 1994-1996. Morris Collen Award 2003.

Birthdate: 1935

Degrees: PhD EE, 1967

Current Position:

Current email: hammo001@mc.duke.edu

Professional Affiliations:

Professional Activities:
Chair of the Data Standards Working Group of the Connecting for Health Public-Private Consortium

Chair of the Computer-based Patient Record Institute and on the CPRI Board

Ambassador to Developing Countries

Chair of the Joint Initiative Council of ISO/CEN/HL7

President of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and AMIA Board member

President and Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics

three terms as Chair of Health Level Seven and HL7 committees

two terms as the Convenor of ISO Technical Committee 215 Working Group 2

Chair of the Data Standards Working Group of the Connecting for Health Public-Private Consortium

Chair of the Computer-based Patient Record Institute and on the CPRI Board.

Chair of ACM SIGBIO

Chair of the Steering Committee for the Rockefeller-sponsored Open Enterprise eHealth Architecture Framework Project

Member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Patient Safety Data Standards

Member of the National Library of Medicine Long Range Planning Committee

Member of the Healthcare Information Technology Advisory Panel of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Honors and Awards:

Other Works:

Other Information:

Curriculum Vitae:

Selected Publications:

Connecting information to improve health.
Hammond WE, Bailey C, Boucher P, Spohr M, Whitaker P.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2010 Feb;29(2):284-8.
PMID: 20348075

eHealth interoperability.
Hammond WE.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2008;134:245-53. Review.
PMID: 183LEDLEY RS, LUSTED LB. Reasoning foundations of medical
diagnosis; symbolic logic, probability, and value theory aid our
understanding of how physicians reason. Science. 1959 Jul 3;130(3366):9b76051

Making sense of standards.
Hammond WE, McCourt B.
J AHIMA. 2007 Sep;78(8):60-1. No abstract available.
PMID: 17902432

The clinical document architecture and the continuity of care record: a critical analysis.
Ferranti JM, Musser RC, Kawamoto K, Hammond WE.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2006 May-Jun;13(3):245-52. Epub 2006 Feb 24.
PMID: 16501180

The making and adoption of health data standards.
Hammond WE.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2005 Sep-Oct;24(5):1205-13.
PMID: 16162564

Accelerating U.S. EHR adoption: how to get there from here. recommendations based on the 2004 ACMI retreat.
Middleton B, Hammond WE, Brennan PF, Cooper GF.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2005 Jan-Feb;12(1):13-9. Epub 2004 Oct 18.
PMID: 15492028

The role of standards in electronic prescribing.
Hammond WE.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2004 Jan-Jun;Suppl Web Exclusives:W4-325-7.
PMID: 15451960

AMIA President's Awards, 2003.
Hammond WE.
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2004 May-Jun;11(3):234. No abstract available.
PMID: 15151110

HL7--more than a communications standard.
Hammond WE.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2003;96:266-71.
PMID: 15061555

Report of conference track 1: basic bottlenecks.
Bakker AR, Hammond WE.
Int J Med Inform. 2003 Mar;69(2-3):295-6. No abstract available.
PMID: 12810132

Making the boundaries clearer: revisiting information systems with fading bound\
aries.
Hammond WE.
Int J Med Inform. 2003 Mar;69(2-3):99-104.
PMID: 12810115

Books

Additional Media:

Sources:
duke center for health informatics description

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